Italian shipping has been holding its breath for two years, waiting for a
disaster that hasn’t come.

It’s been tough, but most Italian shipping businesses are breathing
cautiously now, emerging into a new world, still strong, still innovative,
still wary but with more optimism. They survived because they did not depend
on local business. Italian shipping was late to globalization, but that
globalization has saved it in the crisis.

On May 9 Mare Forum will return to the beautiful setting of Sorrento where
Maritime Italy 2011 will bring together many of the leaders of the Italian
shipping community and square them up to global players in the shipping and
finance world. In a robust forum which builds on the successful Mare Forum
conferences in Italy held from 2005 to 2010, you and they will have a chance
to join a frank debate on Italian shipping, today and in the near future.

Leading Italian and international shipowners; CEOs from shipping, trading
and brokerage companies; key investors in shipping, bankers, consultants and
entrepreneurs; classification societies, financial institutions,
politicians, regulators and the media will gather at this prestigious
conference in Sorrento on May 9, 2011 where an exchange of views, visions
and valuable information will make this forum another unforgettable and
meaningful experience.

There is no disaster – so now let’s look forward and see where Italian
shipping and the world are going next.

Monday 9 May 2011

Hilton Sorrento PalaceSorrento - Italy

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The Speakers and
Discussion panellists:
The list below will be daily updated